Press release - October 12, 2007
Ten Greenpeace activists were arrested today after blockading the freighter ‘Finwood’, a 170 metre-long ship carrying newsprint from Canada’s Boreal Forest.
Greenpeace activists blocked a cargo ship carrying newsprint sourced from the Canadian Boreal Forest. The blockade took place in Terneuzen, Netherlands.
The activists were preventing the import of Boreal Forest
newsprint into the Netherlands and were protesting the forest
destruction caused by logging companies and the Canadian and
international customers that buy from them. For almost 10 hours,
activists with Greenpeace successfully prevented the ship from
off-loading several thousand tonnes of newsprint in the harbour of
Terneuzen, Netherlands. The newsprint comes from
Abitibi-Consolidated, the most important logging company in Canada,
which is logging some of the last intact areas of the Boreal
Forest.
Today's shipment was destined for Dutch newspaper publishers.
PCM, Wegener and the Telegraaf Media Groep all buy from Abitibi
with annual purchases of over 26,000 tonnes of paper. Abitibi is
their most important Canadian source of newsprint. The action has
furthered the debate in Europe about the importance of protecting
the Canadian Boreal Forest and the importance international markets
play in helping to make this happen.
For more information, please visit www.greenpeace.ca/boreal
or call:Kim Fry, Greenpeace Forest Campaigner, (647)
406-0664